Mgt311 Week 3 Team Summary

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In week three of MGT311, we discussed as a group the importance of teams, conflict, and management styles in resolving conflict. As a manager, it is important to have a clear understanding on how to properly organize a team. Both groups and teams are essential to the success of an organization. Team’s work together to achieve a common goal, while groups can be simply classified as a department within an organization. Another important aspect of this week’s discussions was conflict. It is important to have a clear understanding of conflict and its effects on team members and the organization. The best way to stimulate and reduce degrees of conflict is through strong channels of communication. Allowing team members to express their ideas, opinions, attitudes, and frustrations can be very beneficial. Managers should have a clear understanding of how conflict can be beneficial, but also should practice ways to reduce conflict. I believe one of the best ways to try to reduce conflict is by implementing ways to motivate team members. This allows for team members attitudes towards a situation to change. Other ways to reduce conflict in a company consist of: comprise, communication, and healthy team competition. 
 Ashley Levasseur I found the information on group development and behavior to be the most interesting, particularly the stages of development. Having been involved in different types of groups (as I'm sure we all have) it's nice to have the vocabulary and structure to understand why certain behavior is occurring and what to expect next, particularly learning that the storming or conflict stage are normal, dynamic, and also recurring phase of development. I have taken a traditional view of conflict from the standpoint that is was primarily dysfunctional, so it was interesting to be exposed to the interactionist view point, and again have a

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